泽熙美文Cloze Test
Directions: In the following passage, there are 40 blanks representing the words that are missing from the contexts. You are to read the passage through before providing the missing word of each blank without looking at the Answer. Then, compare your Answers with the Answers provided and learn from the possible differences.
On the Style of Writing
The capacity for conceptualization possessed and developed by languages is by no means the only pro-pose language serves. A person’s speech, supplemented by facial expression and gesture when speaker and hearer are mutually in sight, indicates and is intended to indicate a great deal more than factual information, inquiries, and requests. The fact that some of these other functions are performed by parts of a language usually mastered later by foreign learners gives rise to misinterpretation and often makes foreign speakers appear rude or insensitive when they are, in actuality, simply deploying fewer resources in the language.
Within the range of the 1 and lexical possibilities of a language, speakers are able to 2 their emotional attitudes and feelings toward the person or 3 they are addressing and toward the subject matter of 4 they are saying. They are also able to conceal such feelings as one 5 of linguistic deception, though this is usually a harder 6 . These same resources are also exploited to arouse appropriate 7 and responses in others, again independently of any 8 content. This is the chosen field of the propagandist, the preacher, the 9 , the barrister, and the advertiser. All languages make 10 of intonation and voice qualities in these different ways; a 11 can produce and recognize the intonation and type of 12 employed in coaxing, in pleading, in browbeating, and in 13 , in pleasure, and in anger, as well as those 14 for matter-of-fact statements and the exposition of details about which the 15 speaker has little or no emotional involvement. To describe exactly which phonetic 16 are brought into play is quite another matter, involving advanced 17 in phonetic discrimination and analysis. This is one of the areas of 18 about which all too little is currently known. Grammar and 19 are equally involved, though differently in each language. English 20 know the difference between “Come and give me a hand!” and “Could you possibly come and help me?”. “He’s got the gift of gab” and “He is undoubtedly a fluent and persuasive speaker” are each appropriate for different occasions. By greetings and leave-takings a great deal of intended interpretation of the social relations between individuals can be expressed. Much of this is the “good manners” taught to children and expected of adults; these aspects of language behaviour vary from culture to culture, but in none are they wholly absent.
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structural
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convey
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persons
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what
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form
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task
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feelings
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factual
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orator
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use
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person
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voice
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threatening
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appropriate
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speaker
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features
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略
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speech
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voicabulary
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speakers
When Did Aids Begin?
The year was 1959. Location: the central African city of Leopoldville, now called Kinshasa, shortly before the waves of violent rebellion that followed the liberation of the Belgian Congo. A seemingly healthy man walked into a hospital clinic to give blood for a West-ernbacked study of blood diseases. He walked away and was never heard from again. Doctors analyzed his sample, froze it in a test tube and forgot about it. A quarter century later, in the mid-1980s, researchers studying the growing AIDS epidemic took a second look at the blood and discovered that it contained HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
And not just any HIV. The Leopoldville sample is the oldest 21 of the AIDS virus ever isolated and may now help solve the 22 of how and when the virus made the leap from animals (moneys or chimpanzees) to 23 , according to a report published last week in Nature. Dr. David Ho, 24 of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City and 25 of the study’s samples, says DNA pushes the putative origin of the AIDS 26 back at least a decade, to the early ’50s over even the ’40s.
Over the 27 15 years, scientists have identified at
